Sentence examples for ritual washing from inspiring English sources

Shortly after the purchase, the pink, faux-marble ark containing the Torah scrolls was built, along with a ritual washing basin in the lobby.

However, Iranian engineers have helped build two large new wells at one of the shrine's entries so that many more pilgrims can complete the ritual washing before praying and drink pure water.

The book includes culinary and medicinal uses for each fruit, and trivia: did you know that lime juice is used in ritual washing ceremonies before Malaysian weddings and that in the tropics the banana is used as a snakebite antidote?

Ablution is a ritual washing performed by Muslim and it is part of compulsory activities to ensure cleanliness before the Muslim perform prayer it has been recorded in the Holy Book's of Quran.

At its western end it contains the font for the ritual washing service of Baptism, at which a person, most often an infant, is symbolically accepted into the church.

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Students were stirring for the day's first prayers, and for the ritual wash that precedes them.

In this ritual nine young girls are dressed as the nine goddess aspects celebrated during Navratri and are worshiped with ritual foot washing and given offerings such as food and clothing.

Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu, director of the MetroWest Jewish Health and Healing Center in West Orange, has transformed the ritual hand washing at the start of her Seders into a psychological purification.

Leading me down yet another hallway to one of the spacious and spotless wet treatment rooms, Alice began to replicate the ancient Japanese onsen ritual of washing before bathing.

The evening meals — a succulent lamb tagine one night, chicken with green olives the next — began with a ritual hand washing with water poured into a basin from a metal ewer.